On November 26, 1976, the Sex Pistols released “Anarchy in the UK” in Great Britain, the first single from what would become Never Mind the Bollocks, Here Comes the Sex Pistols the following year. This conference – part of a larger project involving a series of events in Bordeaux and a collaboration with the Lycée Magendie (Magendie high school) – takes as it starting point the 50th anniversary of the release, on November 26, 2026, while seeking to investigate the meaning of such a celebration.

This panel examines configurations of masculinity that have emerged in conjunction with contemporary global political, technological, and cultural shifts in the last decade. We invite papers that engage with films across geographical contexts. Please submit a 250-word abstract and bio.

Deadline for submissions: March 10, 2026.

Megha Anwer, Purdue University (manwer@purdue.edu) and Anupama Arora, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (aarora@umassd.edu)

We are pleased to announce that the theme for our 3rd annual online Conference is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme.

This year, we turn our attention to the intricate, invisible, but often tangible webs that bound the early modern world together. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were defined by a profound density of connection - a world of intense social binding, material circulation, and intellectual exchange. From the “knot intrinsicate” of Cleopatra’s demise to the conspiracy of rumours that entraps Othello, early modern drama is obsessed with the architecture of entanglement.

Call for contributions: Audience Participation as Vernacular Practice

We are seeking contributions for an edited volume on the subject of audience participation across performance forms and traditions, focusing on practices that evolve among audience communities, rather than being led by performance makers or artists.

This volume will be published by State University of New York Press as part of the series Studies in Vernacular Music.

Apologies for crossposting.

Call for Papers: Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion

Special Issue: 'Beau Brummell'

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/critical-studies-in-mens-fashion#call-for-papers

Falmouth Horror & Gaming 2026

7th, 8th and 9th July 2026

The Henry James Society

CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern Language Association Convention

7 to 10 January 2027 – Los Angeles, California

The Art of Seeing Wrongly: Evil and Moral Perception in Henry James

“He had no talent for good, but he had a great talent for evil.”

La frontera entre México y los Estados Unidos trasciende su mera definición geopolítica. Más allá de ser una simple demarcación territorial, esta línea divisoria se ha convertido en un espacio dinámico y multifacético que encarna la complejidad de las relaciones entre dos naciones con historias entrelazadas. Es un lugar de encuentro y desencuentro, de intercambio y conflicto, de esperanza y desilusión. Es un terreno fértil donde florece una identidad única, ni completamente mexicana ni totalmente estadounidense, sino una vibrante amalgama que desafía las categorías convencionales. La frontera es testigo de historias de migración, de sueños perseguidos y de vidas transformadas con el cruce de dos realidades.

Call for Participation:

Visual Culture Papers at the 2026 American Studies Association

October 22-25, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois

JOCPC is now accepting articles for the Summer 2026 issue focusing on the topic of children and health. We have kept this theme open-ended and invite works across a wide range of disciplines where researchers are addressing children’s health within various media including literature, film and television, video-sharing platforms, gaming, photography, art, folktales, advertising. This may include but is not limited to:

Children and disease

Child mortality

Histories of children’s health

Historical fiction and child health/wellbeing

Culturally specific practices

Family remedies

Gendered approaches to child health

Roles of race and class in access to healthcare

Neglect and abuse

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Instructions for Authors

International Conference on Innovations in Technology for Humanity (IIHTC 2026)  invites original research contribution from different fields as mentioned in topics provided that the context of the work is clearly explained. Papers must be submitted on or before the last date of paper submission. After this deadline, you will not be able to register new papers, however you will be able to edit the information of existing submitted papers. 

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Akaki Tsereteli State University in Kutaisi, Georgia will host a two-day international biennial multidisciplinary conference on American studies. The conference is dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of John Dos Passos, honoring his enduring literary legacy and critical contribution to modern American literature. It is organized by Prof. Vakhtang Amaglobeli Center for American Studies at ATSU, ATSU Foreign Affairs and Development Office and John Dos Passos Association of Georgia.
The conference will be held at ATSU (59 Tamar Mepe st., Kutaisi 4600, Georgia) on October 23-24, 2026.

Call for Proposals: The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) Annual Conference

Global Fallouts: Moving Peace and Justice Forward in Times of Uncertainty
October 2-4, 2026
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University

• Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15, 2026
• Early Bird Registration: Before May 1, 2026
• Draft Schedule Released: June 1, 2026

Skip me right to the proposal submission form!

Writing about a series of human-object relationships, Robin Bernstein employs the term “scriptive thing” to articulate how objects become things when they orient, choreograph, or compel human action. In one such case study, she analyzes a photograph of a woman posing with a racist caricature at the Hotel Exposition in New York’s Grand Central Palace, circa 1930. Using this photo, she further clarifies the nature of this particular subject-object relationship, stating that it is “neither an isolated woman and her ‘whys’ nor an isolated caricature and its textual ‘hows,’ but instead through a complex interaction between the two figures,” that the photo constructs race.

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 26.1 Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing. Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms. To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: 

We are pleased to share our CFP for the forthcoming seminar at the ESSE conference to be held in Santiago de Compostela(Spain) from 31st August to 4th September 2026. Proposals are to be sent to the three convenors listed below by 31 January 2026.

Endnotes is the annual graduate conference of the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of British Columbia-Vancouver, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation. The English Graduate Caucus invites proposal submissions for presentations, panels, and creative or multidisciplinary works on the theme of Environment, Extraction, Evolution. 

 
“What do I want from literature, anyway? 
A new way of living, a new way to talk  
About the trees that doesn’t endanger them” 
- Billy-Ray Belcourt, “Endnotes” 

Why does it seem so productive today to be simultaneously the subject and object of one’s writing? This workshop starts from the premise that certain writing and artistic practices position the theorizing self as a mediator between the subject and larger scales of social organization.

The Collectively Reimagining Global Politics Taft Research Group and the University of Cincinnati School of Public and International Affairs Graduate Student Association are organizing our Annual Symposium titled "Radical Hope: Reimagining Justice in Insecure and Precarious Times," March 26-27, 2026, at University of Cincinnati.

Editors: Federico Bertoni (University of Bologna), Gabriele D’Amato (University of L’Aquila and Ghent University), Luca Diani (University of L’Aquila), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

CFP for a Special Session on "Books and Reading in Hispanic Queer Culture"2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles (7-10 January 2027) Proposals sought on the roles of books, print culture or reading in the consolidation of queer identities or communities in Spanish-speaking or Hispanic contexts. Send 200-250-word abstracts and 100-word bios. Submissions in English or Spanish are welcome.

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Jeffrey Zamostny, Kansas State University (jzamostny@ksu.edu )